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OIL TANK.

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No. 329,026. Patented 001:.27, 1,885.

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CORNELIUS B. DE LA VERGNE, JR, OF GLEN RIDGE, NEW JERSEY.

OIL-TANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,026, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed January 8, 1885. Serial No. 152,295. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS B. DE LA VERGNE, Jr., a citizen of the United States of North America, and a resident of Glen Ridge, county of Essex, State of New Jersey, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Oil-Tanks, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved oil-tank especially adapted for the convenience of retailers of oil.

The invention embraces a tank-cover and a drip-pan of novel construction and arrangement, which make the tank cheaper to construct and more convenient for use than those now in market.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of the specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved tank with the cover-slide open and with parts broken away to exhibit other parts. Fig. 2 is a side elevation taken at right angles to Fig. 1, and with parts broken away to exhibit other parts. Fig. 3 is a plan of the device with the cover-slide closed, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section on line 00 m, Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the tank, which is preferably cylindrical, and B B the side pieces of the cover,which are of oval shape and rigidly attached opposite each other to the rim a of the tank-body, their lower fixed edges forming arcs of a circle, and their vertical inner edges being parallel with each other and at sufficient distance apart to leave an opening for the operator to conveniently make use of the tank, and these side cover-pieces being fastened to the rim of the tank-body, as shown, there is ample space afforded inside for the pump, measures, &c., that are ordinarily used with the tank. In this respect my invention possesses a great ad vantage over oil-tanks of this class whose cover side pieces form sides of a square or parallelogram drawn inside of the circle of the tank-rim, and which thereby so reduce the inside space that there is not sufficient room for the convenient manipulation of the measures, pump, and drip-pan required to be used with the tank. These side pieces, B B,

have grooves, channels, or slots 1) b formed on their curved inner edges for holding and guiding the sliding section 0 of the cover, which may be pulled down to close the tank, as shown in Fig. 3, or may be pushed up and backward over the fixed section D, whlch connects the two side pieces, B B, as shown. A lip or lug, (1, may be formed on or attached to the front of the sliding section 0 for convenience of opening and closing it.

Another feature of my invention is the immovable flat perforated plate E, which forms a diaphragm within the tank-body about four inches from the top thereof, and is provlded with the usual opening.f,for the introductlon of a pump with drip-orifices g, and with a larger aperture, h, for the introduction of 011 into the tank. v This immovable diaphragm E is much cheaper to construct than those in common use, and is in every respect as serviceable.

Within the tank, upon the diaphragm E, and in combination therewith is placed a round portable drip-pan, F, large enough to cover the aperture h, and about one anda half inch deep, which, because of its portability, can readily be removed to be cleaned or when the tank is to be filled. This pan F is designed as a cover to the aperture h, and as a support for the measures in use.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An oil-tank consisting of a cylindrical body for containing the oil, a perforated diaphragm immovably fixed within the tankbody and below its top, as set forth, two opposite curved side cover-pieces rigidly fixed along the rim of the tank with their vertical edges apart and parallel with each other, a cover-section rigidly fixed between the side cover-pieces, and a sliding cover-section adapted and arranged to slide between the side pieces and over the fixed section that connects them, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In an oil-tank of the character herein specified, a fixed diaphragm perforated for a pump-hole, drip-orifices, and an aperture for introducing oil, and having, in combination therewith, a removable drip-pan adapted to cover the aperture, the whole surmounted by a sectional cover, the fixed portions of which my invention I have signed my name in presare fixed along the tank-rim; and the nlovenee of tWo Witnesses, this 19th day of De- IO able section whereof is adapted and arranged cember, 1884. to slide 11301] the exterior of a fixed section q H H and hetwen the. edges of two opposite fixed CORMILIUS DE LA sections, substantially as herein shown and \Vitnesses: described. JACOB J. STORER,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as JOHN J. BORDMAN. 

